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The vision of reusable learning resources or objects, made accessible through coordinated repository architectures and metadata structures, has gained considerable attention within education and training communities. A proliferation of standards, architectures, Web technologies, and functionality abound to help realize this promise. This chapter outlines the issues associated with designing solutions for small-scale users such as small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It describes the requirements and architecture for the development of an open-source small-scale learning object (LO) management system that supports the full management of learning objects, by bringing together the most promising advances in this field to attain a learning system for use by small-scale users to leverage the power of learning objects for improved training at an individual and organisational level.
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- Learning Object
- International Standard Organization
- Learn Management System
- Metadata Standard
- Metadata Schema
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Johnson, K., Hall, T. (2007). Designing and Testing an Open-Source Learning Management System for Small-Scale Users. In: Pierre, S. (eds) E-Learning Networked Environments and Architectures. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-758-9_8
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